Button-clasp.



M. P. BURNS. BUTTON CLASP, APYLIOATION FILED x0125. 1910.

1,057,034, Patnted Mar. 25, 1913.

(an 00 m'fo'z i miiuugs K) it All ltliw" (3F HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNQR TO THE ROBERT ,N.

SJrZEL'EQIil, CDNNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OE CONNEC CUT.

BUTTGlT-ULJESR nutt r- P n Paioiited Ma It. 535,

Application filed November 25, 1916. Serial No. 594,089.

r in the county OfllQW Haven of ()oni'ieeticut, have invented a usolul improvement in of which tho following is a tiou relates to the button Clasps :2 log a contracted loop for rum c of the: button and its obof -this character 1 tab is f asteuod to the the expedient of object is attained jliollo'wi (unity the i a. central on c Q o, 4 and ti, enlarged showing the steps in the process or a, inbliug the parts, and (3, a fragments 1 low oi a ll'lOCllfiCtlllOll.

The clasp proper which is shown loosel mounted on the looped extremity of tho supporting ip 43., consists of the base loop B, button clzisp C and button tab D which latter made of .v iric and carries a button ll) The base loop which is usually made Wire. is bent to form a transversely elond ope iuur the pa. of the sup- .M between its upper side 1 lo'u ir lo E lis button loop with a up s do 3 and a conr l; which is intended he no mood l: or shank o of the but- The base loop E and the button loop V are fastened together by a sheet metal older strap F by curling one extremity 6 of too a round the top sideB of the but too loop Land the other extremity 7 around the lower ido of the base loop B. The him i is of si 'licient length to cause one of its 'lTll'tliiGS 7 to overlap is atherostremity t own inl ig. The overlapping portion or the extremity L is than bent back in a suitable machine to form the projocting'lip 8" as shown in Fig. 4 which is in turn imaged or pressed down on the free of the United States. residino atextremity of the tab D and securely con fines and conceals this extremity between the folded portions I and 8 of the binder, as shown in The unconfined portion of sides of tho base and but-ton back "for sustaining the force is taioratloii, and that by loops form a of the swa folding the l be iiite s-cd between the binder and the bod of the wearer and thus produce the so called rustloss effect. It may be further observed that any strain on the tab causes the same to bind around. the edge of the lip and that this edge also serves to keep the tab uniformly spread. The end of the tab being confined ZLiltLCUHCQfllt-Bd inside the folded portion of the binder is prevented from ravoling or fraying. This improved manner of fastening the tab not only saves labor by eliminating the sewing, Which-is a slower method, but also enables a tab 01" minimum used in the common form of buttlin clasp since the only change is in'tlie length of the binder strap.

Vvliile the preferred forms of in? lllVGIk tion are embodied in, the devices above described yet the same is susceptible to such modification as may fairly come Within the scope of the'appcuded jclaim.

Having now described my invention What Patent is: i

In a button clasp the combination with a base loop, a button loop and a button tab, of a sheet metal binding strap folded 'arouiid the tab is passed over the edge of the lip 8 the adjacent sides 1- and 15 1p so its edge will lie against. the upper side of the binder the tab Will It claim and desire to protect by Letters length to be employed, and ftll' thtil' no ad- I (litional. parts are required besides those the adjacent sides bf said loops the said the tab may be passed over "the edge of the strap haymg itshdownwardly' p1ro]ecting exlatter and cover the back of the strap.

'tremity onger t an its upward projecting extremity and folded back so that its edge MATTHEW 5 reachesvsubstantially the tbp of the strap, Witnesses:

and the said tab having its free end eon- MARGARET E. BAXTER, I

fined Within said fielded extremity whereby ADA M. GESNER. 

